Welcome from our CEO, Dr Matthew Kelly

Dr Matthew Kelly (left) and Professor Emeritus Rafael Capurro (right) at the launch of Matthew's book Information Cultures in the Digital Age (Springer, 2016) at the African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Matthew was awarded the 2017 Niall Lucy Award for the book by Curtin University. The work was co-edited by Jared Bielby.

Matthew has been a librarian for more than 20 years and has been honoured by the Australian Library and Information Association with Certified Professional status. He holds a PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of South Australia (now Adelaide University), a Master of Library and Information Management from the University of South Australia and a Master of Information Studies (Applied Research) from Charles Sturt University. Matthew earned his MBA from Murdoch Business School and also holds a Graduate Certificate in Employment Relations from Western Sydney University. Matthew has spent many years researching Australia's First Nations cultures and wrote his MA thesis on language education policy while working as a research assistant at The Unaipon School in Adelaide. Matthew has previously been a director of Public Libraries Australia and St John Ambulance. He has worked in editorial roles for the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science and is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science and Collection and Curation. Matthew has lectured on library and information science in Spain, Croatia, the United Kingdom, Greece and in Australia. He has taught information science and management at Charles Sturt University, Deakin University, Curtin University and at the University of Tasmania and worked in public libraries across three states as well as in Australian government archives and in several large multinational businesses in executive roles. Matthew has worked as the official auditor for the International Society for Knowledge Organisation (based in Toronto, Canada). He has published research in Public Library Quarterly, Library Philosophy and Practice, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Libraries, Proceedings of the Libraries in the Digital Age Conference, International Review of Information Ethics, Information Research, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, The Information Society, Knowledge Organisation, Triple C,  the Journal of Technologies and Knowledge Sharing. and in the Journal of Documentation. Matthew has undertaken professional review work for Library Management, Information Research, International Journal of the Book, Collection Management, Journal of Information Science, Collecton and Curation, Social Studies Computer Review, and Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Matthew's research expertise is cited in a number of textbooks used to train librarians in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. Matthew's vision of integrated, localised information delivery was published in his chapter contribution in The Social Future of Academic Libraries: New Perspectives on Communities, Networks, and Engagement (Facet, 2023). Matthew's international leadership role can be seen in his chapter on information science concepts for the Handbook on Information Sciences (Edward Elgar, 2024). His edited volume in honour of Professor Emeritus Archie Dick, Knowledge, Reading, and Culture: Studies in Information Practice, was published by De Gruyter in 2026. Matthew is currently working on a new edited volume, Knowledge, Domains and Epistemic Authority: New Directions in Information Science Theory with Professor Emerita Betsy Van der Veer Martens (Routledge, in press).

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